Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1

[ShengHuo ZHU]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Daniel Ortmann <address@hidden>
>> Date: 12 Dec 2001 21:22:10 -0600
>> 
>> >>    The difference seems to be that the slow article is uuencoded, and
>> >>    the fast one is mime.
>> 
>> > What is the size of the uuencoded article?
>> 
>> 2049 total artical lines for for the mime article.
>> 2307 total article lines for the the uuencoded article.
>
> That would suggest that the Lisp implementation of uu decoder needs
> some speedup, no?  2300 lines is not so large to justify 20 seconds of
> run time, I think.

I've modified uudecode.el (in the Gnus CVS) to speedup it by using
temporary lists instead of working buffers. It roughly cuts down the
run time from 30 sec to 20 sec (on a P-III 700), when decoding a 600K
decoded file (the encoded file has 14123 lines).  Any more suggestion?

ShengHuo